Following a padlet or user account

Updated 1 week ago by Rana Wilds

Following / unfollowing padlets
Following / unfollowing accounts
- Finding a user's profile page
FAQs
- Following padlets
- Following accounts

Follow a padlet or account to receive notifications about their activity. To stop receiving notifications, unfollow it!

You can customize what notifications you receive from your notifications page. Learn more about managing your notifications here.

Following / unfollowing padlets

By default, you follow padlets that you have created and that you have been invited to as a collaborator.

To follow a padlet you have access to, open it and click on the bell icon (🔔) in the action bar. This will open the Activity panel.

Then, click Follow to receive notifications.

If you are already following the padlet, you can access the Activity panel to Unfollow it. You can also manage the padlets you follow from the Padlets tab in your notifications page.

Following / unfollowing accounts

When you Follow another Padlet account, you can be notified when they create a new public padlet. To Follow / Unfollow an account, navigate to their profile page and click Follow / Unfollow.

Manage the accounts you follow from the Accounts tab in your notifications page.

Finding a user's profile page

There are a couple of ways to find a user's profile page:

If you know the username for the account, you can go to their profile page by customizing this URL: padlet.com/<insert username here>. An example would be: padlet.com/toothfairy
If someone posts or comments on your board, you can click their display name to open their profile page.

Navigate to your own profile page, click the Copy link button ( 🔗 ) and copy your profile link to send it to a friend or colleague.

FAQs

Following padlets

Who can follow my padlet?

Anyone with a registered Padlet account and access to your padlet can follow your padlets. Anyone you invite to your padlet as a collaborator will follow your padlet automatically.

Can I see who is following my padlets?

You can receive notifications when someone follows your padlet. From the Activity panel, you can see how many people are following your padlet. However, there is not a list of followers. To be notified when someone follows your padlet, head to the General tab of your notifications page and enable notifications for 'New padlet follow.'

What does it mean if someone follows my padlet?

If someone follows your padlet, they can be notified when new posts are added to the padlet. If the follower has editing or administrator rights on the padlet, they can also be notified about new comments and reactions on the followed padlet.

Can I remove followers from my padlet?

For users you have invited to collaborate on your padlet, you can remove them as a follower by removing them as a collaborator. Otherwise, if you do not want users to follow your padlet, you can change the privacy setting of your padlet. By default, anyone with access to your padlet can follow it. So, if you revoke access by choosing a more restrictive privacy setting, any followers will be removed until they can access the padlet again.

Following accounts

Who can follow me?

Anyone with a registered Padlet account can follow you.

Can I see who is following me?

You can receive notifications when someone follows you. From your profile page, you can see how many followers you have. However, there is not a list of followers. To be notified when someone follows you, head to the General tab of your notifications page and enable notifications for 'New follower.'

What does it mean if someone follows me?

If someone follows you, they can choose to be notified when you create new public padlets. They will not be notified when you create boards with any other privacy settings.

Can I remove followers?

Not at this time.